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US President Donald Trump speaks while visiting federal troops at the US Park Police Anacostia operations facility in Washington, DC, on August 21, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP The United States military has reportedly drawn up contingency plans for potential airstrikes in Nigeria following an order from President Donald Trump directing the Pentagon […]

By John Dike, Osogbo Tragedy has struck in Sokupkpan community, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, as the Chief Imam of the village, Mallam Abdullahi Audu, has been beaten to death by a mob over allegations of witchcraft. According to witnesses, the incident occurred on Wednesday and threw the entire community into chaos. The […]

The Nigeria Immigration Service has announced plans to introduce a Single Travel Emergency Passport, a new biometric travel document designed to help Nigerians abroad whose passports are expired, lost, or stolen return home securely and verifiably. The Comptroller-General of Immigration, Kemi Nanna Nandap, disclosed this during the Joint Thematic Meeting of the Khartoum, Rabat, and […]

Full Text The Department of State Services (DSS), has confirmed that several high-profile terrorism suspects are currently facing trial across the country as part of efforts to strengthen national security and ensure accountability. In a statement on Tuesday, the secret police disclosed that five men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the June […]

Federal Capital Territory minister, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed Tuesday’s ruling of an Oyo State High Court approving the Peoples Democratic Party’s proposed national convention scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16, 2025, in Ibadan. Justice Ladiran Akintola granted the ex parte motion filed on Monday by Folahan Adelabi in suit number I/1336/2025, and […]

An Oyo State High Court has directed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to proceed with its elective national convention scheduled for 15 and 16 November in Ibadan, the state capital. The court, sitting in Ibadan, and presided over by Justice, A. L. Akintola, gave the interim order on Monday following an ex-parte application, Channels Television […]

Following its designation of Nigeria as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’, the United States has said it will work with the Federal Government to take decisive actions aimed at arresting perpetrators of religious violence, protecting Christians, and rescuing those held hostage. The Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Vicky Hartzler — […]

A socio-political group The Yoruba Ronu has described American President Donald Trump’s latest narrative on Nigeria as a provocative plot aimed at destabilizing Nigeria for non altruistic geopolitical and economic motives. In a statement by its chairman, Prince Diran Iyantan, and titled  “Group rejects Trump’s Trumped-up Narrative on Nigeria”, the group said: “The Yoruba Ronu […]

Labour Party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged both Nigeria and the United States to focus on diplomatic solutions rather than threats, in view of both countries’ shared democratic values and a long history of partnership. Reacting to the reported threat by the United States of military intervention in […]